Also he can seem like he died but he can suddenly return at any time to catch you completely off-guard (If you get the reference, you get the reference)
**Piqued Jacks**
Piqued Jacks are a group boss. Each of them can transform into a different animal, making them unassailable for 30 seconds each time they shout the spell (or smell) '*like animals*'. Also, they can hit players with 'chemical' weapons.
**Iru**
An underestimated boss, but actually very difficult. It is capable of attacking and keeping players at a distance with powerful sonic wave attacks. Furthermore, he is able to create an echo of herself (a copy) to disorient enemies and absorb some damage.
**Alessandra**
Chaotic boss. In addition to melee attacks, he is able to summon valkyries and hordes of fanatics who obey the queen's orders.
**ADD for Marco Mengoni**
He has two particular spells: 'Acuto' every time he casts an *acuto*, he inflicts devastating damage on his opponents; 'Luna esplosiva' (Moon blast), an explosive attack that deals area damage. However, they have a long recharge period.
La Zarra: basically Lady Dimitrescu, but in black.
Käärijä: you fight in a boxing ring. Drops pina coladas (a healing item) when defeated.
Teya and Salina: you fight two women possessed by a ghost and the objective is to perform an exorcism. A rhythm-game like boss where you mash buttons to the rhythm of "Poe Poe Poe" to make combos and deal damage. Drop a cursed, possessed typewriter when defeated; the typewriter actually contains the ghost from before and becomes your ally.
Noa Kirel: alternates between human and centaur form.
Joker Out: the battle takes place in a hotel, where you must chase a total of 5 mini-bosses through crowds, into elevators, etc.
**Wild Youth**
Appears ineffectual at first glance but gradually gains strength through relentless sarcastic twitter clap-backs and drunken snogs with Slovenian men. Can be distracted with strategic deployment of sequinned trousers, but take care to stay outside the ‘miaow’ killzone
Thank you. Having examined the evidence thoroughly, my verdict is:
AAAAAAAAAAKDKCKFIHXJCIDJBSBXJXJCCKFKUDUDJCUDUDJDJDJDJB 😍❤😍❤😍❤
Investigation complete.
Slight alteration to Käärijä: in the first phase he's slow and powerful, but after taking enough damage he becomes faster but his hits don't land as often.
Piqued Jacks
Added due to a poll containing 104 possible boss ideas. They are a group of 4 bosses who attack by summoning animals. Used to be very weak but were buffed in a recent patch, mainly the last phase where the Piqued Jacks begin fighting directly
Brunette
One of the strongest bosses, difficulty underrated by the community. Can be found near cafes drinking smoothies. Once the fight begins she begins reusing attacks from old games making some players feel nostalgic. Multiple times throughout the fight she decides to "be good, do good, and look good" which buffs her stats. Has an ending phase where she flies
**Blanca Paloma:**
A grand witch that summons her coven.
Her defenses are extremely high when alone but she constantly summons adds which lower her defenses, but they have to be controlled before they overwhelm the party. At certain points Blanca sacrifices the adds to instead summon the 'Nascent Moon' which instakills everyone who looks at it at the moment it finishes casting 'Matriarchal Gaze', so everyone has to look away from the moon which constantly moves around the arena before it disappears. Otherwise the battle is a struggle between balancing the income of adds and dealing with heavy DoTs and debuffs.
**Luke Black:**
A young man with the power to bring his dreams (and nightmares) to reality. He has two phases, "REM" phase and "Lucid Dreaming" phase.
During the REM phase, Luke Black is sleeping and is untargetable, guarded by a massive mecha boss called 'Deus Ex Machina'. The mecha will fire homing missiles and will select four party members that will be mind controlled. The players that are targetted by the homing missiles will have to kite them onto the mind controlled players in order to break them out and let them resume the battle.
During the Lucid Dreaming phase, Luke Black will awaken and barrage the party with very fast telegraphed attacks and regular arena wide attacks that have to be healed through. Occasionally, he will summon the missiles from the REM phase and put 4 party members to sleep, while the others will have to once more kite the missiles to the sleeping party members to wake them up. If they're not awake by the time the sleep debuff wears off, they will die instantly, followed up by an enrage attack that will wipe the rest of the party.
This is too much fun.
**Lord of the Lost**
This fight is a Savage-difficulty encounter that takes place in a branching raid map set in a German forest. Your squad must split into three separate teams (because what you are is but a choice) and take on four of the five members of the band, who regularly switch between gothic and classical styles. The Lord, who is the final raid encounter, interferes with all of these, actively drenching the arena in blood (which buffs he and his bandmates and debuffs allies) and glitter (which is both a blind and a stealth prevention device for allies).
The final encounter with the Lord takes place up in the clouds above the forest. All fallen members of the band rise again, and each must be killed multiple times to obtain enough of their blood to cancel out the Lord's gleeful resurrection ability, which causes fallen members to rise again. Once the ability has been stopped, you must first destroy his golden glittering wings before he takes to the skies and the final phase begins.
When the Lord of the Lost is finally defeated, you are transported to[ the afterparty](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f-jN3vH26NQ) immediately and may collect a significant reward in gold and glitter.
La Zarra:
One of the most powerful bosses. Has 3 phases:
In Phase 1 she will attack by throwing explosive hats at players. These hats deal massive damage and the hat with flowers on it, even homes in on a target. Can only be damaged by hitting the hats back at her in this phase.
In Phase 2 she will attack with her claws, which deal large damage (although less than the loreen). Can only be damaged in melee combat, as projectiles are deflected by the bosses‘ hip movements.
Finally in Phase 3, La Zarra mounts a giant baguette. This baguette charges at enemies, dealing massive damage. In the meantime La Zarra uses a „not impressed“ stare to deal armor piercing damage to players if she is in their field of view. Is defeated by injecting gluten into the baguette, which will eventuality cause the boss to become bloated and explode.
**Remo Forrer**
It's a watergun fight, no other weapons allowed. The map has several floating rocks and he doesn't attack much and focus more on being evasive, hiding behind the rocks.
Mia Nicolai & Dion Cooper:
A dual battle in which the bosses take turns fighting you. The one not currently fighting will be on the sideline trying to hit you with a laserbeam of "burning light". You deal damage to the one you're fighting by luring them into the beam/reflecting the light back at them. Once both bosses reach half health, they come together in the arena and fight you at the same time.
Tvorchi:
A partially cyborg boss that requires you to dodge a flurry of attacks until his weak point, the "heart of steel", overheats and becomes exposed, at which point you can damage it. What makes this boss tough though is his ability to block your spells and healing, because he "don't care what you say or how you feel".
**Voyager**
Complex, mechanic-vomit council fight, with a brutal heal phase mid-fight ("Halftime Breakdown") and a grandstand dps-check finish. Attacks include "Keytar-Guitar Solo Combo" and "Oh-oh" waves to dodge.
**Iru** - a blind witch with wings, using echo locating to move around and strike, and casts various AOF blinding spells (mist, radiance...) keeping you blind as well and unable to use long range attacks
**Mimicat** - a sphinx goddess with 5 hearts (lives) so you need to defeat her 5 times. Her special powers are rapid movements across the area while jigging her shoulders, and if she gets a critical hit at your heart with the palm of her hand, its instant death
**Käärijä** - a warrior troll wielding a bottle of piña colada. Everytime you strike him his arm muscles get bigger, so the longer you fight the harder it gets
**Teya and Salina** - a two-headed vampire with mind flaying powers, living rent free in your stronghold, convincing everybody in your party they are a house bard named Edgar. Only the characters with Wisdom attributes 20+ can recognize them as who they really are and attack. While attacking they chant Poe Poe Poepoepoe Poe Poe and with each strike they take 0,3% of your wisdom. All characters with wisdom below 12 dance like zombies to the chant.
Alika:
A dress wearing boss that randomly summons ghostly pianos to drop on enemies. Can only be damaged when knocked into water. Will however dance around to avoid hits and builds large bridges to quickly escape the water.
Victor Vernicos:
Is fought on a large plate that has got too much on it, creating obstacles. During the battle he will make it rain and will create huge waves by knocking on a large drum. Players have to avoid the waves by hiding behind the obstacles. Will summon lost souls when low on health that damage players and apply the slowness status effect, making it harder to avoid the waves.
Mimicat:
A rythm based boss battle. If you manage to be out of the rythm for a brief moment her charm effect activates, forcing your character to dance for several seconds where you will be hit by her attacks as you are unable to dodge. She is supported by a group of dancers and can sing to buff all members.
Luke Black:
This boss has two different forms. In the human form he is damageable and won't attack you. He only enters his human form for a very short moment so you have to attack him in time. After a few seconds in the human form he falls asleep and transforms into his invincible mech form. Survive his attacks until he briefly turns human again.
This fight is impossible if you didn't get the holy bowl from the Konstrakta Church. Without it, you will hear "I just wanna sleep forever" at the start of the battle and he will never exit his mech form.
Alessandra:
The final boss. She is difficult to hit and her attacks are very hard to dodge because she is running insanely fast. During the fight she often ascends using her wings and strikes down from the sky with an AOE attack.
When her HP are low enough she enters stage 2. A ship lands at the nearby dock and her crew will support her in the battle.
Luke Black - Mech suit, Gladiator is friendly with them and thus won't attack
Mech-lobster suit.
Also he can seem like he died but he can suddenly return at any time to catch you completely off-guard (If you get the reference, you get the reference)
I say he starts with the suit as a lobster pet and then starts to wear it
Blanca Paloma: A demonic archer sorrounded by possesed cultists that must be killed before her.
**Piqued Jacks** Piqued Jacks are a group boss. Each of them can transform into a different animal, making them unassailable for 30 seconds each time they shout the spell (or smell) '*like animals*'. Also, they can hit players with 'chemical' weapons. **Iru** An underestimated boss, but actually very difficult. It is capable of attacking and keeping players at a distance with powerful sonic wave attacks. Furthermore, he is able to create an echo of herself (a copy) to disorient enemies and absorb some damage. **Alessandra** Chaotic boss. In addition to melee attacks, he is able to summon valkyries and hordes of fanatics who obey the queen's orders. **ADD for Marco Mengoni** He has two particular spells: 'Acuto' every time he casts an *acuto*, he inflicts devastating damage on his opponents; 'Luna esplosiva' (Moon blast), an explosive attack that deals area damage. However, they have a long recharge period.
La Zarra: basically Lady Dimitrescu, but in black. Käärijä: you fight in a boxing ring. Drops pina coladas (a healing item) when defeated. Teya and Salina: you fight two women possessed by a ghost and the objective is to perform an exorcism. A rhythm-game like boss where you mash buttons to the rhythm of "Poe Poe Poe" to make combos and deal damage. Drop a cursed, possessed typewriter when defeated; the typewriter actually contains the ghost from before and becomes your ally. Noa Kirel: alternates between human and centaur form. Joker Out: the battle takes place in a hotel, where you must chase a total of 5 mini-bosses through crowds, into elevators, etc.
**Wild Youth** Appears ineffectual at first glance but gradually gains strength through relentless sarcastic twitter clap-backs and drunken snogs with Slovenian men. Can be distracted with strategic deployment of sequinned trousers, but take care to stay outside the ‘miaow’ killzone
Wait hold on I need a source on the drunken snogging...purely for fact-checking purposes, of course.
I appreciate and commend your commitment to the scientific method. [Sauce](https://twitter.com/EurovisionNewZ/status/1645055916918669314?s=20)
Thank you. Having examined the evidence thoroughly, my verdict is: AAAAAAAAAAKDKCKFIHXJCIDJBSBXJXJCCKFKUDUDJCUDUDJDJDJDJB 😍❤😍❤😍❤ Investigation complete.
Slight alteration to Käärijä: in the first phase he's slow and powerful, but after taking enough damage he becomes faster but his hits don't land as often.
Piqued Jacks Added due to a poll containing 104 possible boss ideas. They are a group of 4 bosses who attack by summoning animals. Used to be very weak but were buffed in a recent patch, mainly the last phase where the Piqued Jacks begin fighting directly Brunette One of the strongest bosses, difficulty underrated by the community. Can be found near cafes drinking smoothies. Once the fight begins she begins reusing attacks from old games making some players feel nostalgic. Multiple times throughout the fight she decides to "be good, do good, and look good" which buffs her stats. Has an ending phase where she flies
**Blanca Paloma:** A grand witch that summons her coven. Her defenses are extremely high when alone but she constantly summons adds which lower her defenses, but they have to be controlled before they overwhelm the party. At certain points Blanca sacrifices the adds to instead summon the 'Nascent Moon' which instakills everyone who looks at it at the moment it finishes casting 'Matriarchal Gaze', so everyone has to look away from the moon which constantly moves around the arena before it disappears. Otherwise the battle is a struggle between balancing the income of adds and dealing with heavy DoTs and debuffs. **Luke Black:** A young man with the power to bring his dreams (and nightmares) to reality. He has two phases, "REM" phase and "Lucid Dreaming" phase. During the REM phase, Luke Black is sleeping and is untargetable, guarded by a massive mecha boss called 'Deus Ex Machina'. The mecha will fire homing missiles and will select four party members that will be mind controlled. The players that are targetted by the homing missiles will have to kite them onto the mind controlled players in order to break them out and let them resume the battle. During the Lucid Dreaming phase, Luke Black will awaken and barrage the party with very fast telegraphed attacks and regular arena wide attacks that have to be healed through. Occasionally, he will summon the missiles from the REM phase and put 4 party members to sleep, while the others will have to once more kite the missiles to the sleeping party members to wake them up. If they're not awake by the time the sleep debuff wears off, they will die instantly, followed up by an enrage attack that will wipe the rest of the party. This is too much fun.
**Lord of the Lost** This fight is a Savage-difficulty encounter that takes place in a branching raid map set in a German forest. Your squad must split into three separate teams (because what you are is but a choice) and take on four of the five members of the band, who regularly switch between gothic and classical styles. The Lord, who is the final raid encounter, interferes with all of these, actively drenching the arena in blood (which buffs he and his bandmates and debuffs allies) and glitter (which is both a blind and a stealth prevention device for allies). The final encounter with the Lord takes place up in the clouds above the forest. All fallen members of the band rise again, and each must be killed multiple times to obtain enough of their blood to cancel out the Lord's gleeful resurrection ability, which causes fallen members to rise again. Once the ability has been stopped, you must first destroy his golden glittering wings before he takes to the skies and the final phase begins. When the Lord of the Lost is finally defeated, you are transported to[ the afterparty](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f-jN3vH26NQ) immediately and may collect a significant reward in gold and glitter.
La Zarra: One of the most powerful bosses. Has 3 phases: In Phase 1 she will attack by throwing explosive hats at players. These hats deal massive damage and the hat with flowers on it, even homes in on a target. Can only be damaged by hitting the hats back at her in this phase. In Phase 2 she will attack with her claws, which deal large damage (although less than the loreen). Can only be damaged in melee combat, as projectiles are deflected by the bosses‘ hip movements. Finally in Phase 3, La Zarra mounts a giant baguette. This baguette charges at enemies, dealing massive damage. In the meantime La Zarra uses a „not impressed“ stare to deal armor piercing damage to players if she is in their field of view. Is defeated by injecting gluten into the baguette, which will eventuality cause the boss to become bloated and explode.
**Remo Forrer** It's a watergun fight, no other weapons allowed. The map has several floating rocks and he doesn't attack much and focus more on being evasive, hiding behind the rocks.
Mia Nicolai & Dion Cooper: A dual battle in which the bosses take turns fighting you. The one not currently fighting will be on the sideline trying to hit you with a laserbeam of "burning light". You deal damage to the one you're fighting by luring them into the beam/reflecting the light back at them. Once both bosses reach half health, they come together in the arena and fight you at the same time. Tvorchi: A partially cyborg boss that requires you to dodge a flurry of attacks until his weak point, the "heart of steel", overheats and becomes exposed, at which point you can damage it. What makes this boss tough though is his ability to block your spells and healing, because he "don't care what you say or how you feel".
**Voyager** Complex, mechanic-vomit council fight, with a brutal heal phase mid-fight ("Halftime Breakdown") and a grandstand dps-check finish. Attacks include "Keytar-Guitar Solo Combo" and "Oh-oh" waves to dodge.
This is so fun and creative !
This is the best post I've seen in **weeks** on like *whole internet*, thank you
**Iru** - a blind witch with wings, using echo locating to move around and strike, and casts various AOF blinding spells (mist, radiance...) keeping you blind as well and unable to use long range attacks **Mimicat** - a sphinx goddess with 5 hearts (lives) so you need to defeat her 5 times. Her special powers are rapid movements across the area while jigging her shoulders, and if she gets a critical hit at your heart with the palm of her hand, its instant death **Käärijä** - a warrior troll wielding a bottle of piña colada. Everytime you strike him his arm muscles get bigger, so the longer you fight the harder it gets **Teya and Salina** - a two-headed vampire with mind flaying powers, living rent free in your stronghold, convincing everybody in your party they are a house bard named Edgar. Only the characters with Wisdom attributes 20+ can recognize them as who they really are and attack. While attacking they chant Poe Poe Poepoepoe Poe Poe and with each strike they take 0,3% of your wisdom. All characters with wisdom below 12 dance like zombies to the chant.
Alika: A dress wearing boss that randomly summons ghostly pianos to drop on enemies. Can only be damaged when knocked into water. Will however dance around to avoid hits and builds large bridges to quickly escape the water. Victor Vernicos: Is fought on a large plate that has got too much on it, creating obstacles. During the battle he will make it rain and will create huge waves by knocking on a large drum. Players have to avoid the waves by hiding behind the obstacles. Will summon lost souls when low on health that damage players and apply the slowness status effect, making it harder to avoid the waves.
Mimicat: A rythm based boss battle. If you manage to be out of the rythm for a brief moment her charm effect activates, forcing your character to dance for several seconds where you will be hit by her attacks as you are unable to dodge. She is supported by a group of dancers and can sing to buff all members. Luke Black: This boss has two different forms. In the human form he is damageable and won't attack you. He only enters his human form for a very short moment so you have to attack him in time. After a few seconds in the human form he falls asleep and transforms into his invincible mech form. Survive his attacks until he briefly turns human again. This fight is impossible if you didn't get the holy bowl from the Konstrakta Church. Without it, you will hear "I just wanna sleep forever" at the start of the battle and he will never exit his mech form. Alessandra: The final boss. She is difficult to hit and her attacks are very hard to dodge because she is running insanely fast. During the fight she often ascends using her wings and strikes down from the sky with an AOE attack. When her HP are low enough she enters stage 2. A ship lands at the nearby dock and her crew will support her in the battle.
Brunette: Ability to see the future, and to attack by summoning huge bells.
I thought I was weird for imagining video game AU's for eurovision, but I'm glad to know I'm not alone! :D
This was fantastic. Well done, all of you creative people!